[RESOLVED] PinX is hiding my backglass/dmd images

[Knievel]

So now that I've upgraded to the current PinX my 'hide backglass' 'hide  dmd ' tags don't seem to be working anymore. 

I have the 'hide backglass' set to 'false' for a few VP tables that don't have a b2s and I have 'hide dmd' set to false for all my mame games so my marquee images stay visible.

Are these being handled a different way now?

Thanks

 

[Mike_da_Spike]

Can yiu share your logfile (launch a table where vp table and mame game should show an static image) and also your pinballx.ini.

I dont use it, but will try it as well.

Vp table without a backglass ??? Can't recall that I have one. 

[Knievel]

Here you go. I can see in the log it's telling it to not hide but it's not working. Works fine on my old PinX install.

Yea I have a few old VP9 tables without b2s, I could lose them. It's keeping the Mame marquees on my DMD screen while playing that I really like. 

log.txt PinballX.ini

[Knievel]

Well I did another fresh install with the same result.

I'm spoiled by the look of the loading vids now so I guess my only option is to roll back to an older build.

Does anyone know when the loading vids option was added?

Thanks

[Mike_da_Spike]

Loading videos introduced with 3.60

 

Ai ! You running w7. I know there where some issues with it. Thought there was someone with the same issue and he made videos from 1 frame.

If you import in Databasemanager a picture backglass or ayfield, it ask you to convert it to video. Try this once on a table, to check if you see the backglass

 

[Knievel]

Thanks Mike I will try that.

Just noticed your location, my Father-in-Law grew up in Haarlem

[Mike_da_Spike]

Nice !

My wife is actually from Haarlem anf som of our kids (and grandkids) lives their as well. Its close by. 

 

[Knievel]

That's cool . Wijtkamp is their family name.

So I didn't have that Databasemanager installed (didn't realize it was an add-on) so I just copied one of my backglass vids into my dmd vids folder.

It showed up on the dmd screen and happy to report it stayed there when I launched the game!

So I guess Win7 is the problem and could be a work-around. If I can figure out how to make nearly 3000 png images into mp4's that is.

 

[Knievel]

Incase anyone else has this issue I've found the program HandBrake works nicely for png>mp4 conversion.

Converting all my DMD images now..

[Mike_da_Spike]

4 hours ago, Knievel said:

I didn't have that Databasemanager installed (didn't realize it was an add-on

Actually, Databasemanager is not an add on, but a standalone program.

Glad you figured it out. There are multiple tools you can use to convert.

Databasemanager uses ffmpeg from tbe pinballx directory 

[Knievel]

Sorry yes that's what I meant. I didn't install it but it didn't appear to be what I needed to convert a big batch of pngs to mp4.

HandBrake worked great. Time to do some actual playing. Then I'll dig into what else the new PinX offers..